One character in this story warns its main character that her "imaginative power and habit of story-making" will only aggravate her nervousness. This short story's narrator is dissuaded from visiting Cousin Henry and Julia, and hides the text of this story from her housekeeper, Jennie. The title object's "strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths" provoke the narrator to free the woman creeping behind it by tearing it away. This short story criticizes the "rest cure" prescribed by doctors such as Silas Weir Mitchell by portraying the breakdown of a woman's mind through her reaction to the title obje
One character in this story warns its main character that her "imaginative power and habit of story-making" will only aggravate her nervousness. This short story's narrator is dissuaded from visiting Cousin Henry and Julia, and hides the text of this story from her housekeeper, Jennie. The title object's "strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths" provoke the narrator to free the woman creeping behind it by tearing it away. This short story criticizes the "rest cure" prescribed by doctors such as Silas Weir Mitchell by portraying the breakdown of a woman's mind through her reaction to the title object. For 10 points, name this short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman set in a room decorated with a hideously colored pattern.
One character in this story warns its main character that her "imaginative power and habit of story-making" will only aggravate her nervousness.
"The {Yellow Wall}-{Paper}"